FBI shuts down Coreflood botnet, zombies transmitting financial data

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FBI shuts down Coreflood botnet, zombies transmitting financial data
Botnet	Coreflood
Malware
Botnet/malware group
Exploit kits
Services
Feature
Distribution vector
Target
Origin
Campaign
Operation/Working group
Vulnerability
CCProtocol
Date	2011 / 13 avril 2011
Editor/Conference	Ziff Davis Enterprise
Link	http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Security/FBI-Shuts-Down-Coreflood-Botnet-Zombies-Transmitting-Financial-Data-767165/ (Archive copy)
Author	Fahmida Y. Rashid
Type

Abstract

“ The FBI has shut down the massive Coreflood botnet and is hunting the 13 criminals who stole millions of dollars from victims’ bank accounts and credit cards.

U.S. law enforcement authorities won another battle against international cyber-crime as it shut down a botnet that controlled more than 2 million computers around the world and stole millions of dollars from its victims. A civil complaint against the criminals behind the botnet has also been filed.

Bibtex

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